After a weekend filled with violence, including two ugly mass shootings and the brutal slayings of Rob Reiner and his wife in their home, I was deliberately throwing myself into an unrelated column I’d been working on for a few days prior, when my sister texted me with news that actor Gil Gerard, star of…
Tag: Glen Larson
Retro-Musings: Remembering the 1979 “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” feature film…
******DRACONIA-SIZED SPOILERS!****** I did a column on 1979’s “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” TV series (1979-1981) five years ago for the series’ 40th anniversary, which included a quick synopsis of the film. The TV version of the movie, retitled “Awakening” for the series, included several scenes shot specifically for the TV version that were…
The Night the Cylons Landed: September 17th, 1978…
Last week marked the 45th anniversary of a show I was absolutely nuts about as a kid. I couldn’t let September 17th, 1978 go unmentioned. Oh, and apologies for borrowing the title of this column from a two-parter of the otherwise sacrilegious “Galactica: 1980,” but it seemed to fit… What’s This? In the second half…
Retro-Musings: “The Six Million Dollar Man” (1973-1978)…
*****BIONIC SPOILERS!!***** Back when I was a kid in the Stone Age, we had three TV networks, a few UHF stations, and pretty much nothing else. VCRs were not yet commonplace (they existed, but were super-expensive), and there weren’t yet DVRs or DVDs, let alone streaming. For video gaming, you had Pong and Atari. That…
Reflecting on the reimagined miniseries of “Battlestar Galactica” (2003), Part 1…
Childhood Favorite Reborn. As a not-quite 12 year old kid in the fall of 1978, I became a huge fan of the original “Battlestar Galactica”. I watched the series religiously, often sticking a tape recorder by the TV speaker to record it for later playback (VCRs were new in those days, and prohibitively expensive). I…